Electric Car Advice

Apologies for a potential hijack here, but is there a comparable electric car that could better my current situation?

Currently driving a diesel Seat Leon estate that gives me an approximate mpg of 65, which means I spend a maximum of £250 on fuel a month. I own the car outright and it's zero road tax a year.

Thanks in advance.
 
northernrower said:
Apologies for a potential hijack here, but is there a comparable electric car that could better my current situation?

Currently driving a diesel Seat Leon estate that gives me an approximate mpg of 65, which means I spend a maximum of £250 on fuel a month. I own the car outright and it's zero road tax a year.

Thanks in advance.
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Nope, give up!

I drive a 3 year old BMW 1 series diesel, it's paid for, I get 65mph and would love to change it to a EV.

But it simply isn't economical for me to do so. And that comes for someone who paid £10k for an air source heat pump instead of renewing my old gas boiler.
My ASHP doesn't save me any money, it was done for the future of my children and the fact we could afford it. I also want solar, but have east/west roof so again simply not economically beneficial.

What is a total pain is these things are within reach, renewables could employ our children and our children's children, would do so much for their futures in reducing the planet heat and give our children goals to aim at when in education.

Lets just hope the powers to be learn all that before it's too late!
 
Johnnyweetabix said:
I’ve got the polestar 2 and had it since October . Only needed to use it at a public charger once and used a Tesla supercharger . Took about 40 mins to give a 60% boost .

Great car though
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Yeah I agree, it's much more "me" than the Tesla. I really like them. Shame they were just a bit early. That chassis and drive train with the latest hyundai charging would have been a killer
 
northernrower said:
Apologies for a potential hijack here, but is there a comparable electric car that could better my current situation?

Currently driving a diesel Seat Leon estate that gives me an approximate mpg of 65, which means I spend a maximum of £250 on fuel a month. I own the car outright and it's zero road tax a year.

Thanks in advance.
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I got my Ioniq EV dirt cheap on a two year lease for less than 300 per month including all servicing. That's due to end in November and I've extended for another year but sadly I think the days of deals like that are gone for a very very long time. The demand is just so huge on cars of all types now.

I'll wait and see how things go and would absolutely want to stay with an EV but we'll see when the time comes
 
truck said:
I recently had to stick £100 in and that hit home, plus £75 into a corsa. Some interesting data re costs posted on here but a lot of the EV with decent ranges seem to be £35K plus thats a hefty tag, so it looks as though swings and roundabouts re where the costs can be.
Vast majority of drivers their average journey is around 8 miles, most could happily work with a car with a genuine 150 mile range. Need prices to soften but I have this niggling feeling that as the government is push drivers into EV's the tax advantages will be removed once they have their nice captive market
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Still a long while before EV's will take over though, especially the used market, and it will be the people with the lowest budgets who move over last, so would be unfair to not let them have any incentives (even second hand incentives).

I'm obviously very pro-ev, for people who can afford the same class of comparable cars, but the problem EV's have is the ones which are effectively futureproofed (as in range over 200 miles, and charging at over 100kW) have largely only came out in the last couple of years and most of them have been aimed at the higher classes of cars.

There's a few around with 200 mile range and charging over 100kW for 30k, but if people can't afford to finance a new 30k EV and pay £70 electric a month, then they also can't afford to finance a 25k ICE car and pay £200 fuel a month. It's hard for them to get the loan in the first place, to pay off the loan and acquire equity in the car, and they just won't or shouldn't commit to that much finance. They're not being helped by EV's really holding their value either, due to car and especially EV shortages. I suppose it's a bit like getting on the housing ladder, once you start it's fine, but getting on there in the first place is difficult. New cars aren't an option for some, and two year old cars are selling for the same price as new cars (great for those of us who can afford them).

It's going to be a while before the car market is back able to fill demand, before used cars drop at previous depreciation rates and even longer before these 30k EV's get down to 10k used etc, or there's good new 20k EV's about which most would consider.
 
When will the uk gov introduce the pay per mile that has already been signed off by the treasury?
 
northernrower said:
Apologies for a potential hijack here, but is there a comparable electric car that could better my current situation?

Currently driving a diesel Seat Leon estate that gives me an approximate mpg of 65, which means I spend a maximum of £250 on fuel a month. I own the car outright and it's zero road tax a year.

Thanks in advance.
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Well, £250 a month on Diesel is around 125 litres, so 28 gallon or 1820 miles a month? An economical EV does about 4 miles per kW so around 450 kW a month. At 25p per kW that's about £110 a month in electric, but for your miles you would definitely be better off on an overnight tariff that could be more like 7.5p per kW, so around £35 a month.

Effectively you could save about £215 a month on fuel alone. So to get it to match up, you basically need to find a similar EV, which is less than £200 a month more depreciation or £200 less a month PCP based on the same miles.

I'm not sure if you bought yours new, but a Seat Leon TDI estate is what £27k new, and worth like 11k after 4 years with about 80k miles on the clock?

Effectively that's costing 16k depreciation, plus (48 months of fuel at £250), so maybe around 28k total, over 4 years?

It's not an estate, but I think you could get an e-208 for about 30k, among others or an MG5 estate for about 30k, and imagine both of those would be worth a fair bit more than 10k after 80k miles/ 4 years (probably more like 15k). So at worst, 15-20k depreciation and £2,500 fuel, so maybe 18k-23k total?

The key thing with you, due to your miles you definitely need one of those overnight charging rates and obviously need to be able to charge at home, otherwise you won't save enough in electric to counter the increased cost, or lack of choice (not many cheap estate EV's).
 
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